Sunday's derby showdown has brought back some old memories for the former Parkhead manager
Old Firm managers regularly claim to take no more than a passing interest in what is going on across the city.
“If it was still a draw at the time, I'd say, oh please, just wrap it up now, wrap it up now! Then you switched it off and you came back on again… you just knew from the crowd that they'd scored. “I thought, oh good lord, so that was kind of scary at the time, so he did scare me. I felt that Rangers were genuinely the benchmark at that stage. Obviously winning the first Old Firm game 6-2 helped us gain a bit of steel about ourselves, even after they hammered us at Ibrox in the next one.
Meanwhile Brendan Rodgers has lost just one of 18 encounters across his two spells – and won an incredible 14 of them. O’Neill knows those kinds of numbers can torture the men in the dugouts – and can’t continue for long. “You have to overcome that. And if they lose on Sunday it's, you know, it's not disaster because it's so early in the season. But it's a psychological blow again. Brendan’s record in this game is really good.”
“And what's happened is that, whether you like it or not, that stat is churned out for you just before the game and in the week building up to it. “You haven't done it, you haven't done it…And you know yourself, you have to change that. And you have to change it with the players that you have there.”
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